Steering-wheel.



J L. PRATHER. STEERING WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1909.

Patented May 14, 1912.

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' STEERING-WTHEEL Specification of Letters Patent. 7

Application filed. September 7, 1905.

Patented. May list, .lfi lltt.

Serial no. 51am.

:0 451i whom may concern it known that LJosnrn L. Pnivrnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at .i resno, in'the county of Fresno, State of California, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Steering-lVheels; and i do declare the following to be a full, clear and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in steering wheels of all kinds, particularly for plows or like implements, the object of the invention being to produce a steering wheel which can be turned in any direction desired and still he propelled and driven by the power op rating the vehicle or implement to i which it is attached.

it further olnect of the invention is to produce asnnple and inexpensive device,

and. yet one which will be exceedingly efleclive-for the purposes for which it 15; designer l These ohjccts accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as Will -fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

in the drawings similar characters of reterence indicate corresponding parts in the several views. I I

figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved steering wheel. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 a front elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on a. line of Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, 1 designates a. portion of the frame of the vehicle to which my improved steering wheel is attached. This frame has a supporting plate 2 at its outer end, carrying a. shaft or pin l is a. steering wheel mounted in a frame having an upwardly extending pin 6 projecting through the member I and having on its upper end a beveled gem-.7, with which inter-meshes a small beveled gear 8 on a shaft 9, having a steering wheel 10 whereby the wheel i may he turned in any direction desired.

Disposed around the member 3 is a double faced beveled gear 11 with the. upper face of which inter-meshes a small sprocket wheel 12011 a shaft 13 journaled in a frame 14 secured to the frame E. On the other end of the shaft i3 is a sprocket wheel 15 driven by a chain 16 connected with the power operating the vehicle to which the steering wheel is attached. Inter-meshing with the under face of the gear 11 is a beveled gear 1? driving a shaft 18 journaled in the frame 5. On this shaft 18 is sprocket Wheel 19 connected by a chain 20 readily be seen that the wheel. 4 may he turnedin any direction desired by means of the steering apparatus described and still be driven forward by means of the gear lnechanisn'i described herein, thus fulfilling the objects of theinvcntion as hcreinhefore stated.

lVhile this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device still in practice such devia tions from such detail may he resorted to as do not form a de nn'ture from the spiritof the invention. 4

Having thusdescribcdmy invention what I claim as new and useful. and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A steering wheel as des ribed comprising a frame, a projecting arm on said fraine. another fral'nc, a pin in said second frame projecting through the said first named frame, a beveled gear on the top of said pin, a frame secured to the first named frame, a. shaft on said third named frame. a beveled gear on one end of said shaft engaging the beveled gear on said pin, a steering wheel on the other end of said shaft, :1. pin on said first named frame, a two faced beveled gear disposcd around said pi and bearing on said second named frame, a shaftin said arm. a beveled gear on one end of said shaft engaging the upper of said double faced beveled gear. a sprocket wheel on the other end of said shaft, 2?. shart disposed on said second named frame near the top thereof, a beveled gear on the end l named wheel and a chain comm-ting the of said shaft engaging the under face of 5 two lnsf namedsproehel heehinei (l -ei-il wl. said doubled faced beveled gea1*,-a sprocket I MN) wheel on said shaft, another shaft in the lower end of said named second frame a Witnessesz.

wheel mounted on said last named shaft, :1 ll. (l. ltnomis sprocket wheel connected with said last; Kl. A. Ilium-1;. 

